Category: Sports
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The Brewers have us over the moon!
All of Wisconsin is sitting in the front row! Wisconsin needed that. The Milwaukee Brewers won their first World Series after coming so close too long ago — 1982. The city and state’s first baseball championship since the 1957 Braves (for you history buffs). Church bells rang in Milwaukee Wednesday night 10-28-26. Shouts of jubilation…
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We’ve done the agony, how about a little ecstasy?
After 69 years, aren’t we due? Don’t know how much more of this we can take. (Who is this “We” you keep referencing, Blaska?) (“We” is the indentured servants at the Stately Manor.) Trying to will Milwaukee’s baseball team to victory for our first World Series victory since 1957 so why are our carnival barkers…
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Can you believe it? !!!
Thanks, Brewers, Wisconsin needed that! Got to admit, the indentured servants questioned their faith when Los Angeles superstar Shohei Ohtani — the $700 million man — snapped out of his slumber and jacked a no-doubter into the stands at Dodger Stadium for a 4 to 0 lead in the second inning last night. Like Linus,…
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Wisconsin needed that!
Politics? Schmolitics! Mighty Casey has hit a line drive up the middle! We don’t mind living vicariously as long as our teams win and win they most certainly did over that just concluded, only-in-Wisconsin beautiful fall weekend of October 3-4. First, the Wisconsin men’s football Badgers looked like Barry Alvarez was prowling the sidelines Saturday…
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Competition made America great
If the Brewers can compete why can’t our schools? State school boss Jill Underly in her annual State of Education address last week asked Wisconsin voters to cough up more tax dollars and while we’re at it, stamp out competition to the government school monopoly. Because (the part she didn’t say), public schools can’t compete.…
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How the mighty have fallen!
The Badgers and Blaska are upset! As we noted a few thrilling episodes ago, before today’s tragic outcome in Portland OR, former Ohio State star Clark Kellogg on CBS picked High Point U, seeded #12, to upset our beloved Wisconsin Badger basketball team, the 5 seed in the NCAA tournament. And so they did this…